The West University of Timişoara is also present this year in the GreenMetric World University Ranking, the only classification in the world that measures the commitment of each participating university in the development of an "ecological" infrastructure. According to the results of the 2020 edition, UVT ranks 652nd worldwide and 7th nationally. In this edition, GreenMetric included 912 universities from 84 countries, their number increasing compared to 2019 (when it included 780 universities).
In shaping the classification, both the information reported by the universities and other independent studies and research carried out for GreenMetric were analyzed. The self-evaluation questionnaire of the universities is structured on 6 categories of performance indicators: settlement and infrastructure (15%), energy and climate change (21%), waste management (18%), water use (10%), transport (18% ) and education (18%).
The UI GreenMetric World University Ranking, launched in 2010, is an initiative of Universitas Indonesia, which identified the need for a university classification system regarding the commitment to addressing environmental sustainability issues. The purpose of GreenMetric is to evaluate the efforts of universities in terms of resource management and the sustainable development of the university campus. Such classification activities will ensure that more attention is paid to the sustainable development of the environment, as well as the economic and social issues related to sustainability, and thus the management structures of the universities will be more supported in their efforts to implement eco-friendly policies . In this world top, along with the West University from Timișoara, there is Babeș-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca, a member along with UVT of the University Consortium.
